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The '''Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten''' ("Foundation for Political Delinquents"; abbreviated '''SOPD''') was a Dutch right-wing organization founded by and for formerly jailed and convicted [[war criminals]], collaborators who were associated with the German overlords during [[World War II]]. The SOPD was the first<ref name="Schans2011">{{cite book|last=Schans|first=Wil van der|title=Monitor Racisme and Extremisme: Extreemrechts in Amsterdam|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IPPPeLFd9cAC&pg=PA17|accessdate=1 May 2012|date=2011-07-12|publisher=Amsterdam UP|isbn=9789085550495|page=17}}</ref> and the largest of the collaboratist organizations in the country, "numbering perhaps a hundred former internees."<ref name="Art2011"/>
The SOPD was founded in 1951 by Jan Hartman, formerly of the [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]],<ref name="Roos2010">{{cite book|last1=Roos|first1=Jan de|last2=Roos-Van Rooden|first2=Thea|title=Moed en overmoed: een biografie van burgemeester Dirk Frans Pont|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NIzv8VukcxkC&pg=PA193|accessdate=1 May 2012|year=2010|publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren|isbn=9789087041847|pages=193 n.14}}</ref> the fascist party that allied itself with the German Nazi movement after the [[History of the Netherlands (1939–1945)|occupation of the Netherlands]] in 1939. Hartman became the organization's secretary. A co-founder was the lawyer [[Jan Wolthuis]], another former NSB member who had been a "peace judge" during the German occupation,<ref name="Roos2010"/> essentially a political office meant to render [[Anton Mussert]] immune from prosecution.
The organization was "tolerated" by the Dutch government, but the political party formed by the organization, the '''Nationaal Europese Sociale Beweging''' ("National European Social Movement"), was banned by the [[Supreme Court of the Netherlands]] in 1954<ref name="Schans2011"/>/1955.<ref name="Art2011">{{cite book|last=Art|first=David|title=Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9dUTXJakqLoC&pg=PA78|accessdate=1 May 2012|date=2011-02-21|publisher=Cambridge UP|isbn=9780521720328|page=78}}</ref>
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